The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 17 Page 18
THE BOTTLE IMP
_NOTE_
_Any student of that very unliterary product, the English drama of theearly part of the century, will here recognise the name and the rootidea of a piece once rendered popular by the redoubtable O. Smith. Theroot idea is there, and identical, and yet I hope I have made it a newthing. And the fact that the tale has been designed and written for aPolynesian audience may lend it some extraneous interest nearer home._
_R. L. S._